Stuff split off from the Old Blues Day 2007 topic

UserRequestedRemoval · Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:25 am

Pinky was a laugh.
what do think of yes sir?
No!
He never lived that one down. I met him about 10 years after I left and he told me students kept on reminding him of that one.

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:51 pm

The difference between the all boys and all girls schools is obvious - you have all had a great many more staff - it seems like Hertfrod had staf teaching two or more subjects!

I suspect that we are all a bit sensitive at times - regardless of sex - and hints that gender specifics will not ammuse me - ie girls are wimps etc.. I have had to be mother and FATHER to a son and daughter for 17 years - I had to teach my son how to shave - my daughet about the time of the month - both of them about sex, condoms etc... I have fixed things some men wouldnt even try to, made things like bows in pottery to keep them happy about the pasta as they felt the cowls we had were too small, I have mended toys, done the garden. recently (like this week) put uotside lights on the walls so I can see around the back as now the rain has hit the front door is useless (it swells and shrinks - it basically needs a new frame, and a new door - all of which I cannot afford) tried to teach them about work money and basic ethics, and that what you do always comes back to you - The only thing I get upset about is the dragging of ordinary topics ion here into the gutter and noxious inuendo's - we girls are not pathetic creatures - most of us have given birth - something you males would die of even thinking.. and we are able to take the sexy jokes etc. It's just that you go too far - and it goes on too long - and I am not alone - thank you Katharine.

UserRequestedRemoval · Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:00 pm

Point taken Jude

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:10 pm

I would just like to say that I understand all your points and am truely sorry if i have caused any offence to anyone or aided the dragging down of threads on the forum.

I have read it all as good natured banter and have stood up for myself or beliefs when necessary on threads

Sorry again

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:12 pm

blondie95 wrote:I would just like to say that I understand all your points and am truely sorry if i have caused any offence to anyone or aided the dragging down of threads on the forum.

I have read it all as good natured banter and have stood up for myself or beliefs when necessary on threads

Sorry again

Keep up the banter - you've never offended anyone!

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:13 pm

Banter is fun - bad inuendo's are less so!

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:14 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:
blondie95 wrote:I would just like to say that I understand all your points and am truely sorry if i have caused any offence to anyone or aided the dragging down of threads on the forum.

I have read it all as good natured banter and have stood up for myself or beliefs when necessary on threads

Sorry again
Keep up the banter - you've never offended anyone!

It's us boys that are the culprits

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:16 pm

Jude wrote:Banter is fun - bad inuendo's are less so!

Is good innuendo acceptable? And who judges?

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:25 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:
blondie95 wrote:I would just like to say that I understand all your points and am truely sorry if i have caused any offence to anyone or aided the dragging down of threads on the forum.

I have read it all as good natured banter and have stood up for myself or beliefs when necessary on threads

Sorry again
Keep up the banter - you've never offended anyone!

Well thank you but i do feel a little guilty, maybe you should have a test forum for innuendos beforey ou post them to decide if they are good or not?

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:41 pm

blondie95 wrote:
Richard Ruck wrote:
blondie95 wrote:I would just like to say that I understand all your points and am truely sorry if i have caused any offence to anyone or aided the dragging down of threads on the forum.

I have read it all as good natured banter and have stood up for myself or beliefs when necessary on threads

Sorry again
Keep up the banter - you've never offended anyone!
Well thank you but i do feel a little guilty, maybe you should have a test forum for innuendos beforey ou post them to decide if they are good or not?

Who would decide, though? Are you volunteering to be innuendo monitor?

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:48 pm

To be honest, self-censorship tends to work remarkably well on here.

As far as I know, the moderators VERY rarely feel compelled to change or remove anything, and given that just about every topic under the sun gets discussed, including the usual potentially controversial ones such as religion, politics, (music

) etc., I think that posters rub along together amazingly well.

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:58 pm

we do monitor ourselves - hence my comments - it's just a gentle reminder that anyone from CH over 16 is allowed in here - and although they may think they know more than us older, we know they don't as we have been there and have the t shirts, scars and knowledge!

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:05 pm

DavebytheSea wrote:
Katharine wrote: You click on a thread which has been eminently respectable and you discover that in the time you have been earning your pennies it has been hi-jacked by the infantile mind.

Some of the time it does enliven but there are other times ....
Although I am no psychologist, there is, I suppose, some likelihood that (and I think it is probably truer of us males than the ladies!) when writing on an alumni forum we do regress somewhat into our childhood psyche. It is a noticeable trait of institutions like Rugby Clubs etc where a rather infantile blokishness often prevails.

Some of us (myself included) have freely admitted elsewhere on this forum that we sometimes have difficulty in acting or feeling our age! Perhaps we should learn to sink gracefully into our dotage.

(And this thread seems to have been well and truly hijacked!!)

Well I have been earning a few (far too few!!) pennies since I put that comment up this morning, and am now on my lunch break.

I think DBTS made a very good point there. I don't understand why it should be truer of the male of the species than the female but ... it seems to be.

BTW, I haven't yet decided what to be when I grow up!!

UserRequestedRemoval · Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:07 pm

Grow up ?????? Wash your mouth out!

Mind you I suppose I really should see what the world of resposible adults is like

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:11 pm

nah, i spent all my school life thinking when i leave uni at 21 i will be grown up and know exactly what i want to do. Im 22 have been in the world of work for over a year now and although im doing exactly what i want to do, i am by no stretch of the imagination grown up and do not tend to be either. And as some of you are who are older than me and are refusing to grow up then im not going to either